"My experience with Artreach was great as I wanted to do designing. It was like an art coaching for me for my entrance (for NIFT). We learned sketching, perspective and my favourite was the portrait of ourselves: everybody did their own thing and added a touch of their own personality into the portrait, it was the best activity that I did in Artreach. We also visited some art museums and I got the opportunity to see some master pieces. Overall it was a great experience and was fun too."Sheetal, Participant TF 2016-17- Currently studying at NIFT Mumbai

​SOME TESTIMONIALS:

"My experience with Artreach India has been wonderful. We have completed our two years of Artreach and the third year is currently going. In the first year we learnt the basics of drawing like making our portrait, object drawing, drawing free hand lines, playing with colours etc. It was like I really did not have an interest in drawing but after joining this programme I have started to have confidence in me that yes I can also do painting. In the second year we used to go to the Sanskriti Kendra and there we learnt different types of art like making objects out of mud, making mandalas, drawing a painting out of graph sheet and marker, and many more. We have learnt so many new things in Artreach that we didn't even know the names of before. Artreach has truly widened our knowledge about different types of art and we have made lots of new friends as well and the teachers are amazing. They are so co-operative that if we have not understood something they are ready and very sweetly make us understand it. And currently this year we are learning how to connect art with different professions, like they have taught us techniques of photography, graphic designing, how to make digital electric music, dance and many more. It is really fun learning a lot of new things and i really enjoy going there. Thank you so much for giving me and my sisters and brothers this opportunity to join with Artreach foundation."Sonal, Udayan Care

​"I had the chance to meet the kids after the session with Saba Hasan. What stood out most was a sense of pride the children felt at creating something. I feel academics and scholastic learning squeezes the fun out of a sense of true achievement because in a way the lesson has been thrashed a hundred times before a result is issued. Art is fresh, it is immediate and instant and I saw its impact on the children. They had a very 'live and fresh' sense of creating something. Secondly, the art itself was so beautiful that I could sense the effect this beauty had on them. The peeling walls and dilapidated look was completely and utterly transformed in the few, simple images they painted. I feel as human beings we are programmed to react to beauty, to absorb it and draw from it. It might be hyperbolic to say it gives them hope, but not really - maybe the level of hope doesn't shoot from 0 to 100 immediately, but being surrounded by beauty helps in feeling less despondent. "

"I loved wall painting. That time doing mural with you was a very good time of my life. I felt very good and was very happy with you. I want you to teach me more. Thank you for coming to Jamghat and spending so much time with us."​Faruq, Participant (15 years)

"I was apprehensive when I started the first project with Artreach. I thought a group of boys with a wide age range of 6-18 would be a hard demographic to manage. I needn't have worried. They were the most wonderful children to work with. Not only did they have bundles of enthusiasm but they were also warm, polite and amazingly helpful not only with the fun jobs but also the boring ones such as washing brushes and clearing up. Working with Artreach and the Salaam Baalak Trust was a fantastic and rewarding experience. In a week we transformed a depressing and claustrophobic room into a bright and uplifting space for the children to live in. By the end of the week I was exhausted but so happy, and when Artreach contacted me to see if I would be interested to help with a second project I jumped at the chance. "Lettie Blackett, Artist​